‘Life as service’ As vice provost for university life, Mamta Motwani Accapadi is dedicated to giving students the support they need to thrive. As vice provost for university life, Mamta Motwani Accapadi is dedicated to giving Penn students the support they need to thrive.
“For all I can remember growing up, I wanted to be a doctor,” says Mamta Motwani Accapadi, which is how she found herself at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a degree in microbiology. Yet Accapadi is not a medical doctor. Instead, she earned her Ph.D. in education administration, and is the University of Pennsylvania’s new vice provost for University Life. Accapadi found a healing profession of a different kind as an educator devoted to students’ well being.
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A convicted murderer died by lethal injection on Thursday as the administration of President Donald Trump carries out a series of federal executions in its waning days in power, ignoring calls for clemency and COVID-19 outbreaks behind bars.
Brandon Bernard, a 40-year-old African-American inmate, was put to death at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for his role in a 1999 double murder in Texas committed when he was 18 years old.
More than 500,000 people had signed petitions urging Mr Trump to commute Bernard s sentence to life in prison, citing his age at the time of the crime and his good behaviour as an inmate.
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